Alberto Funes Arjona was born in Granada, on February 2, 1982, into a humble family, which sought in the Nasrid capital the outlets that the rural area did not offer them. He lived his childhood and adolescence in the La Chana neighborhood. He is the youngest of seven brothers, of whom only one is dedicated to music. His father is originally from Salar, a town in western Granada, and his mother is from Alhama de Granada.
From a very young age he was attracted to music and began his violin studies at the age of 8, at the Victoria Eugenia in Granada. It was not until he was a teenager when he fell madly in love with flamenco and did not hesitate to change the classical musical orbit for the flamenco clubs of his hometown, although his first appearances in flamenco groups occurred as a violinist.
In 2004 he received a scholarship to study at the renowned Cristina Heeren Foundation of Flamenco Art, in Seville. She studied with the sadly deceased Arahal teacher, Paco Taranto, as well as with María José Lama and Pepa Sánchez. This marked a before and after in his life as a singer and he obtained the necessary push and motivation.
In August 2006 he made his first international appearances as a singer. Portugal (CAE Figueira da Foz), with the Granada company of the Romero sisters: and Cuba, in collaboration with the Lo Ferro ballet, Murcia; performing at the Gran Teatro de La Habana.
Alberto Funes has trained with great singers in addition to the aforementioned Paco Taranto. El Pele, Calixto Sánchez, Marina Heredia and Antonio Gómez El Colorao have contributed to training the Granada native as a singer.
Another important event in Alberto's artistic career occurred in 2008, when Blanca Li and Javier Limón noticed him to be part of the cast of actors and singers leading the musical Enamorados Anónimos , by Grupo Drive, performed at the Rialto theater in La Gran Vía de Madrid during part of 2008 and 2009, with which they recorded the double CD Enamorados anonymouss El Disco.
In 2009 he worked with the dancer Cynthia Cano on a tour of Mexico and joined the flamenco ballet Rafael Aguilar with whom he worked in the works Carmen and Rango in the German opera houses of Hamburg (2009), Dresden (2011), Leipzig (2011). , Mannheim (2011) and Frankfurt (2012). With the same company they toured China (2010 and 2013) and Taiwan (2011)
In the summer of 2010 he collaborated with the Lo Ferro ballet on a tour of Chile and worked as a singer in the flamenco show in the Spanish pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.
She works in Suma Flamenca (2012) and Madrid en Danza (2011) with the show Cartas de amor, by Selene Muñoz.
In 2012 he graduated in Flamenco Singing from the Cristóbal de Morales in Seville, being the first in his class and the first in Andalusia to achieve it. That same year he joined the Spanish Suite flamenco dance company, with which he toured theaters around the world with different shows: Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the United States, Romania, Finland, Turkey, France and, of course, several theaters in Spain.
Invited in 2012 by the Spanish Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, for a performance and workshops on flamenco.
In 2014 he began his career with the Sara Cano dance company, working, together with Héctor González, on the music of the piece A palo seca , awarded at the 23rd Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition, in Madrid, and taking it to stages such as the Lido theater: Ostia, Italy (2016) VI Flamenco Biennale, from the Netherlands (2017), I Flamenco Biennial, from Slovenia and Dusseldorf Flamenco Festival (2018), Spanish Pavilion, Dubai Expo, United Arab Emirates (2022), CCE of Guatemala (2022), Attakkalari Festival in Bangalore, India (2023) among others. Also with the dance company Sara Cano produces the music for the show Mujer de pie, together with the Russian producer Alexey Starodubtsev, a work that premieres at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, in Madrid, in 2021. Mujer de pie has also been performed at the 26 Jerez Flamenco Festival (2022), Albuquerque Flamenco Festival, NM (2022), Milan Flamenco Festival (2022) and Milan Fashion Week (2023).
In 2016 he began a new project with the Moroccan singer Hamid Ajbar, recreating flamenco sounds and Andalusian music and taking it to festivals in Monastir, Tunisia (2016); Brendola, Italy (2018) Mérida, Mexico (2019); Casablanca, Morocco (2019) London, Nottingham and Leeds, England (2019), , and Murcia Three Cultures (2022).
In 2018 she recorded voices with the musician and singer Nacho Cano for the musical Malinche, currently being performed in Madrid, and for the model of the film Rango, together with the direction of Hans Zimmer.
Flamencos en route dance company Company born in 1984 and based in Baden, Switzerland.
In April 2023 she premieres a dance piece by Eva Manzano, as well as the production of its sound space: Los Monstruos de Picasso .
